(NEXSTAR) – During a baseball game, foul tips and home runs repeatedly send balls into the crowd, but how many footballs will there be for the NFL’s biggest game on Sunday, Super Bowl LX in Santa Clara? While it’s unclear how many will see game action, we do know how many balls each team starts with. Traditionally each team gets 108 footballs – 54 for practice and another 54 for game day, according to Nexstar’s WXIN. The Seahawks and Patriots will get another 12 that are reserved for kicking. You’d be forgiven for thinking that number might be quite a bit lower, considering the measures the league takes to keep balls on the field of play. For safety reasons, NFL players aren’t allowed to kick or throw a football into the stands – doing so is punishable by a $8,114 fine for the first offense – and a large net is put in place to keep (most) field goals from flying into the crowd. Simply handing a ball to someone in the stands doesn’t automatically trigger a fine, however. The balls themselves are all made at a Wilson Sporting Goods plant in tiny Ada, Ohio. According to league rules, the home team must furnish the pump and the footballs must be inflated to between 12 1/2 and 13 1/2 PSI (pounds per square inch of pressure). The referee will supervise the footballs until just before the game starts. If you remember the so-called “Deflategate” scandal alleging that the New England Patriots illegally took air out of game footballs so quarterback Tom Brady could get a better grip during the 2014 AFC Championship, you know how important a pound or two of pressure can be. Both the Seahwaks and the Patriots will have to make 12 “primary” and 12 “backup” kicking balls available for testing no later than two hours and 15 minutes before the start of the game. If either team should run out of playable balls, the referee will borrow one belonging to the opposing team, or select the “best available ball.”